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Words
θλῖψις G2347
- Home gloss
- affliction
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- distress / distress / affliction
- Note
- Pressure, trouble: John 16:33; Acts 7:10–11; 2 Cor 1:4; Rev 7:14, where the expected English is often "tribulation." In Gen 35:3 for the Masoretic version's "strait" (צָרָה)
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (3)
- 35:3 and having risen, let us go up to Bethel, and let us make there an altar to the God who listened to me in a day of affliction, who was with me and brought me safely through in the way that I was going."
- 42:21 And each said to his brother, "Yes, for in sin we are concerning our brother, in that we overlooked the affliction of his soul when he was begging earnestly of us, and we did not hearken to him. On account of this, this affliction has come upon us."
- 42:21 And each said to his brother, "Yes, for in sin we are concerning our brother, in that we overlooked the affliction of his soul when he was begging earnestly of us, and we did not hearken to him. On account of this, this affliction has come upon us."